Who did you text ten years ago...?

Have you sent anyone a text message today? I assume that you have, and if you haven´t, you most likely will during the day. But imagine how it was just ten years ago? I was 27 years old and even if I owned a mobile phone, I didn´t text very much. It was just in the beginning of our new sms obsessed time...

The very first sms was sent from a computer in 1992. Now, in 2010 there are 250 million text messages sent every month in Australia and media talks about how teenagers suffer from text addiction sending up to 120 a day. Texting builds and ruins relationships, is a way to connect easily, but also to be too impulsive. It has for sure affected our way of communicating, not just in a technical way. We come closer, yet further apart.

So ten years ago having a cell phone was pretty cool and we were getting used to sending emails. But imagine another ten years back in time... According to futurist Craig Rispin, there are more emails sent every minute today than in whole 1994...

With this in mind, realise the importance of keeping your ear to the ground, researching what the future has to offer and what kind of changes that will affect us all. How will future generations behave, think and connect? Don´t get surprised; be in charge. Let me know if you want to know.